Adams family values: Abigail and Louisa Catherine Adams and the influence of Europe on the 'Republican Courts' of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. (1789-1829) by Leeper, JL

“…The republican court is still a rarely acknowledged term in the historiographies of the early United States, yet as this dissertation makes clear, this term best describes the social and cultural scene of New York, Philadelphia, and early Washington D.C. from 1789 to the rise of Jackson in 1829, and that the Adams women were the most significant adopters of those European traditions. …”

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations by Barrie, W, Yang, Y, Irving-Pease, EK, Attfield, KE, Scorrano, G, Jensen, LT, Armen, AP, Dimopoulos, EA, Stern, A, Refoyo-Martinez, A, Pearson, A, Ramsøe, A, Gaunitz, C, Demeter, F, Jørkov, MLS, Møller, SB, Springborg, B, Klassen, L, Hyldgård, IM, Wickmann, N, Vinner, L, Korneliussen, TS, Allentoft, ME, Sikora, M, Kristiansen, K, Rodriguez, S, Nielsen, R, Iversen, AKN, Lawson, DJ, Fugger, L, Willerslev, E

“…Here, by using a large ancient genome dataset from the Mesolithic period to the Bronze Age, along with new Medieval and post-Medieval genomes, we show that the genetic risk for MS rose among pastoralists from the Pontic steppe and was brought into Europe by the Yamnaya-related migration approximately 5,000 years ago. …”